...A listing of the many impeachable offenses can be found at MaineImpeach.org and on a growing number of websites and blogs — just search the phrase "impeach Bush" and be amazed. They include committing fraud by presenting false evidence to Congress and the American people that led to this war of aggression, which itself is a violation of the Geneva Conventions; as well as condoning torture of U.S. prisoners, suspension of habeas corpus, illegal wiretapping of Americans, and dereliction of duty and gross negligence in the scandals surrounding Katrina and Walter Reed Hospital.

Another strong motive to remove Bush and Cheney from office can be found in the agenda of the Project for a New American Century (search the web), drafted in 1997 by Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bolton, Armitage, Libby and Wolfowitz.

This policy document clarifies the grand plan behind the Bush regime to consolidate more power in the executive branch than any other presidency in history, and the pursuit of U.S. domination over world resources. Connect the dots that lead from the refusal to pull troops out of Iraq, to the ongoing battle to force the Iraqi government to sign over the management of its oil resources to American and British oil giants, to construction of permanent military bases in Iraq — all testimony to the plan for "war without end" and world dominance.

If Congress fails to act to impeach, there is strong evidence that the president will be emboldened to start another war against Iran, again on the basis of lies, deceptions and exaggerations.

In response to objections that in a time of war no one should challenge the commander-in-chief, a young Congressman in 1847 wrote: "That the President must be allowed to make wars as they choose and to go unquestioned and unchallenged during the course of that war destroys the whole matter of the American experiment, and places presidents where kings have always stood, and I will not put our President there or our Republic in that circumstance." (Abraham Lincoln on the impeachment of President Polk)

These words are still vital today. ...

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From "Village Soup", a local paper in Maine. Complete article here.